by Alice TorresanDipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari - DISLL, Università di Padova, 2026This work aims to analyze the novel Jane Eyre by looking not only at the love story but also at the text's connection to the context of nineteenth-century British colonialism. The analysis begins with the historical background, highlighting how the exploitation of the colonies represented the "wealth" of the era, an aspect reflected in the character of Bertha Mason. Critical scholarship has explored this theme extensively; in particular, two works proved fundamental to my research: Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. This thesis proposes a third interpretation: the protagonist’s maturation occurs only when she succeeds in recognizing Bertha as a real person with her own history. By comparing these perspectives, I conclude that Jane Eyre’s development is not merely a personal journey, but a choice of ethical responsibility toward the Other. By demonstrating how Jane chooses to flee Thornfield to avoid being complicit in a system that nullifies Bertha’s identity, this thesis confirms that her freedom arises from the rejection of all forms of oppression. Jane’s ultimate goal is the pursuit of a love based on truth and mutual respect, rejecting any bond founded on control or secrecy.
by Nikola MlezivováČeské Budějovice, 2026. bakalářská práce (Bc.). JIHOČESKÁ UNIVERZITA V ČESKÝCH BUDĚJOVICÍCH. Filozofická fakultaThis bachelor's thesis examines and compares the novels Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Firstly, it introduces the literary and historical context of the period in which both novels were created, and then compares the main female characters. Then it focuses on romantic relationships and love, as well as family and social influences, and compares the portrayal of the topics in both novels and the impact on characters.
In May 2025, the Brontë Birthplace in Thornton reopened following a £650,000 restoration, transforming the historic building into a visitor, literary and education centre.As of June 2026 Queen Camilla stands as the centre's Royal Patron.Anna Gibson, general manager of the Brontë Birthplace, said: "Until recently, the Brontë legacy and those crucial first years of life were unknown to most of the world."Preserving any tangible part of the incredible history of the Brontë sisters is of deep emotional, cultural and historical significance."She also highlighted the importance of the site in understanding the early lives of the Brontë sisters and the history of Thornton.Ms Gibson said: "The project has shone a light not only on the sisters' early years but also the wider and fascinating history of Thornton as a village."Despite its significance, Thornton is often overshadowed by Haworth, the Brontës’ later home.Ms Gibson said: "In almost all of the Brontë biographies, Thornton is reduced to a stop on the map to Haworth."The house is called rundown and unglamorous and the landscape bleak and wild."However, to the few 'in the know' and to the people of Thornton, the Birthplace has always held a special significance and has been a fixture of Market Street."The birthplace has now become a hub for cultural activities, including a monthly speaker programme that attracts guests from across the UK and beyond.Ms Gibson said: "The talks have proved popular, giving voice to both local and international speakers on a huge range of topics."The site has also seen increased visitor numbers thanks to renewed interest in the Brontës, fuelled in part by major screen adaptations.Emerald Fennel's Wuthering Heights premiered in February of this year, remarking on the event, Ms Gibson said: "We experienced a huge uptick of visitors."It was our busiest ever month for overnight stays and one week we had all rooms occupied nearly every night."She said: "It was brilliant in that it brought in a whole new generation of Brontë fans and sparked such interesting and engaged conversations over a book published nearly 200 years ago."Ms Gibson said: "The entire West Yorkshire area has seen a massive uptick in interest, international press coverage and visitors in the last year." (Amelia Short)
Fforde used the narrative dare technique to write his 2001 debut novel, The Eyre Affair, a mind-bending adventure set in an alternate version of England, about Thursday Next, a crime-solving literary detective who must rescue Jane Eyre from a villain who has kidnapped her from the pages of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel. The book launched Fforde’s bestselling Thursday Next series, which will come to an end this fall after 25 years.“This is the last hurrah,” Fforde says. “The Thursday Next series is a celebration of reading, writing, and novels. I think novels are the greatest art form known to humankind.” (Elaine Szewczyk)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847)Often cited as an inspiration for Gothic Romance, this book is so much more. Yes, Jane Eyre does contain certain gothic elements (an old gloomy estate full of secrets, a broody handsome love interest, also full of secrets) but the strength of the novel is in singular, unforgettable character of Jane herself. Jane’s narration of her own growth from poor, unloved orphan to independent woman feels surprisingly modern. As a child she lashes out in anger at her mistreatment, as a youth she is determined to stand on her own two feet and as an adult she refuses to accept anything but full and equal love. Jane’s passion, integrity and insistence on being treated with dignity make her a very relatable and recognizable character almost two hundred years after Jane Eyre’s first publication in 1847.
Charli xcx, Wuthering HeightsLove or hate Emerald Fennell’s 2026 rendition of Wuthering Heights, one thing is certain—Charli xcx totally gets Emily Brontë’s famed gothic novel. Dare I say, it’s the best interpretation since Kate Bush’s 1978 song of the same name. Somehow, she managed to blend the alt-cyber-pop sound we’ve come to love the Brit icon for with the book’s range of then-scandalous themes. I have never—and will never—consider the gothic novel a romance (not sorry!), so much as a cautionary tale of obsession, enmeshment, and abusive cycles. Charli nails just that with viral songs like “House” (which I’d say is a spot-on song retelling of Isabella’s bait-and-switch entrapment into a marriage with Heathcliff) to upbeat bangers like “Dying for You” (remember when, in the book, Heathcliff dug up Cathy’s grave to look at her? Yikes!). Another standout, “Seeing Things,” captures the element of the spectral and ghost stories that was a key theme of the book and mostly left out of the movie. (Conçetta Ciarlo)
AnneBrontë.org shares a new video exploring how the Brontës kept cool during heatwaves.Más de uno decidió el pasado mes de febrero que este verano lo pasaría en los aislados y sombríos páramos de Yorkshire, en el norte de Inglaterra. No por refugiarse en un lugar de temperaturas menos sofocantes, sino por haber quedado anonadados tras ver a Margot Robbie y Jacob Elordi actuar en esos escenarios en la última adaptación audiovisual de Cumbres borrascosas , dirigida por Emerald Fennell. El filme desató la Brontëmanía y provocó, por un lado, que las ventas de la novela se dispararan un 504% en tan solo dos días, según datos aportados por Amazon; y, por otro, que hoteles y apartamentos turísticos de la zona notaran un notable incremento de ocupación.Mia Ferullo, responsable de la participación digital del Brontë Parsonage Museum, que se encuentra en Haworth (Inglaterra) y que conserva la antigua casa familiar así como la mayor colección mundial de manuscritos de las hermanas Emily, Charlotte y Anne, admite a La Vanguardia que existe “un auge renovado” por la vida y obra de este trío literario. Pone, además, sobre la mesa un término: las readaways , o, lo que es lo mismo, las escapadas vacacionales a las que uno llega tras leer un libro y donde muchas veces la actividad principal, además de desconectar, es leer. Una tendencia que va a más, según apunta un informe publicado a principios de verano por la plataforma de búsqueda de vuelos Skyscanner , donde se revela que el 49 % de las personas que ha reservado un viaje a lo largo de este año han considerado en algún momento hacerlo a raíz de un libro. El estudio desvela también que las reservas de hotel que utilizan el filtro “biblioteca” en su web han aumentado un 70% a nivel mundial. (Lara Gómez Ruiz) (Translation)
Sat 15 August. Times: 11am - 1pm and 2 - 4pmServant's Room, Brontë Parsonage MuseumLacemaker Catherine Lillie will be in the Museum giving a demonstration of bobbin lacemaking. Catherine is currently a trustee for Heritage Crafts. Through her work, she aims to revive the endangered craft of bobbin lacemaking through participation and teaching.
Presented by Michael & Christine O'DowdSaturday, August 15, at 2.30pmOffaly History Centre, Bury Quay, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland (part of County Offaly's programme for National Heritage Week 2026)Brontës: Love and Honour is a cycle of ten studio-recorded songs composed by Michael O'Dowd, with his wife Christine, who perform the piece together. The songs are woven together with spoken dialogue and illustrations, and set to instrumental and choral accompaniment, tracing episodes from the family's life. The performance runs for about an hour.The production had its premiere in Banagher in April, timed to Charlotte Brontë's birthday, and the Banagher connection is central to its genesis: O'Dowd's interest in the family developed out of a non-fiction book he completed in 2019 on the Irish honeymoon of Charlotte Brontë and Arthur Bell Nicholls, Charlotte Brontë, An Irish Odyssey.
A special musical event celebrating the famous Brontë family of Yorkshire and their connection with Banagher, County Offaly, will take place in the Offaly History Centre, Tullamore, on Saturday, August 15, at 2.30pmOffaly Historical Society and the Banagher Brontë Group are collaborating on the musical 'Brontës: Love and Honour', which is one of a number of events taking place in the county to mark Heritage Week.This melodic cycle of ten studio-recorded songs was written by the well known composer Michael O'Dowd and his wife Christine.The cycle relates the joys and sorrows of the family in music and lyrics with linking dialogue and illustrations to provide ambience and clarity. Each song has inspiring instrumental and choral accompaniment.This will be a truly delightful and enchanting experience for all attending lasting for about one hour.Admission is free and a richly illustrated deluxe souvenir programme with introductions and full lyrics will be available on the day for just €5.The production was premiered to great acclaim in Banagher in April for Charlotte Brontë's birthday and now forms part of County Offaly's 2026 Heritage week programme. This is an event not to be missed by Brontë or musical enthusiasts.
Erica Morris, Chief Executive of Word Up North, the producer of Ilkley Literature Festival, said: [...]"This year, as part of the National Year of Reading, we’re putting readers at the heart of the programme with a series of book club-style events - Page Turners Classic Fiction Club - celebrating some of the most compelling novels ever written from Wuthering Heights to The Wasp Factory. From dedicated fans to first-time readers, you can be sure of a warm Yorkshire welcome at Ilkley Literature Festival.” (Clementine Hall)
“Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte is a literary work that has had several film adaptations over the years. It was also on many reading lists for high school literature classes. The tortured romance of Cathy and Heathcliff is timeless. The BBC/PBS 2009 adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” on DVD is available here at the library. The 2026 film version by Emerald Fennell also offers a new take on this classic work of literature. We’ll have that on DVD soon at the library too. With both film adaptations it is interesting to see what highlights of the plot are covered and how the costumes are interpreted. (Allison Peyton)
7. Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary StewartDespite being published way back in 1958, Nine Coaches Waiting still manages to feel thrilling and fresh all these years later. The story features familiar elements from literary classics like Jane Eyre and Rebecca, as well as a dash of Cinderella in the way Linda, who spent years in an orphanage, encounters the tall, dark, and handsome Raoul.It’s impossible not to hold your breath alongside Linda as she attempts to unravel a potentially sinister plot. Can she separate the facts from her feelings of suspicion and attraction? If you enjoy a good page-turner, this one won’t disappoint. (Jill Nystul)
NuSass Productions presentsWritten by Courtney BayleyDirected by Kathleen BarthAugust 14-September 12Van Ness Main Street, 4340 Connecticut Ave NW Washington DC 20008Nu Sass Productions cordially invites you to the house party of the season, hosted by none other than the Brontë Sisters—Emily, Charlotte, and Anne, the famous writers of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, respectively. The Brontë Sisters are stuck in purgatory, suffering through party after party in an endless time loop, until they throw the best house party and reach The Point of Celebratory Reverence. For them, hosting is truly hell.
When asked about potential collaboration, Mia Ferullo, digital engagement officer at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, said: 'We’re always happy to help research and facilitate museum visits.'This resurgence of the Brontës in popular culture helps us to do our work in preserving our designated collection and making it publicly accessible to visitors and researchers.'A lot of readers connect to Jane, partly because the novel is one they pick up as a teenager.'Ms Ferullo said screen adaptations introduce the Brontës’ work to new audiences, which in turn supports the museum’s mission.She said: 'We’re open to different creative interpretations of the novels and I think each generation will have their own version that is their favourite.'She also welcomed the casting of Aimee Lou Wood as Jane Eyre and drew parallels with Emma Mackey’s portrayal of Emily Brontë in the 2022 film Emily, which attracted younger visitors to the museum.She said: 'Her Sex Education co-star Emma Mackey portrayed Emily Brontë in the 2022 film Emily and we noticed that there was a draw for younger audiences to visit the museum.'I’m looking forward to seeing Aimee Lou Wood’s Jane.' (Amelia Short in Great British Life)
This new production is adapted for the stage by Nick Young and Ross Muir, and directed by Nick Young. Young is a director who has worked for the RSC and Connaught Theatre in Worthing; he also founded Rainbow Shakespeare, which creates open-air Shakespeare productions for family audiences. Muir is an Artistic Director, producer and actor who has performed in a range of Shakespeare classics and enjoyed playing Santa! Jane Eyre is performed by an ensemble cast of five actors and features original music and songs.
(...) reflects on the early impact of choreographer Pina Bausch; her residency at Edvard Munch’s former studio at Ekely in Norway; the physicality in the paint of Lovis Corinth; the “razor-sharp sentences” of the writer Annie Ernaux and her fascination with Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre; and the inspiring vision and “ecology” of the film-maker Agnes Varda.Love London Culture reminds us of the upcoming London premiere of Jane Eyre. The Musical and the Sirens video they posted a few days ago. A columnist of Clarín (Argentina) is fascinated by the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever event in Haworth. Vietnam.vn quotes how Wuthering Heights is one of the favourite novels of the writer Tang Thanh Ha.
The Bronte Birthplace, Bradford, BD13 3HFThursday 13th August 2026 6:30PMTake a journey behind the scenes of one of Yorkshire’s most remarkable heritage restoration projects. Through photographs, plans and stories from the project, discover how the Brontë Birthplace was lovingly restored from an empty building into the thriving heritage attraction it is today.This illustrated talk offers a fascinating insight into the restoration process, the discoveries made along the way and the incredible community efforthat tbrought the Birthplace back to life.
Accompanied by an epic sweeping score, prepare to see Jane, the first feminist literary icon, like you never have before.Co-directed by John Caird (best known for international hit ‘Les Misérables’) and Broadway veteran Megan McGinnis, with music by Paul Gordon (‘Daddy Long Legs’).With Jane Eyre preparing to make its long-awaited UK premiere at Southwark Playhouse Elephant, The Fan Carpet sat down with co-book writer and co-director John Caird to discuss bringing Charlotte Brontë’s literary masterpiece to the stage. (...)John Caird: I’m John Caird. I’m the co-book writer and co-director of Jane Eyre.Jane Eyre is one of the great literary classics. What was it about Charlotte Brontë’s story that first spoke to you?John Caird: I just love the character of Jane. She’s such a feisty, funny, clever and spirited young woman right from the very beginning, and watching her grow throughout the story is such a beautiful journey.Of course, it’s also a great love story. The girl who has nothing meets the man who appears to have everything, but that’s not how it turns out. Jane ends up discovering her own strength and self-worth, while Rochester loses everything he thought defined him. It’s a wonderful reversal.One of the production’s most unique ideas is that the ensemble all become Jane’s voice throughout the performance. Can you explain the thinking behind that?John Caird: Because it’s an autobiographical novel, you can’t really ask one actress to sing all of the songs and deliver all of the narration—you’d simply become overwhelmed by hearing the same voice throughout.By allowing the ensemble to speak with Jane’s voice, they share the responsibility of telling her story. They’re not literally becoming Jane herself; they’re helping to narrate her journey while she’s living it. It creates a much richer theatrical experience.You’re bringing this production home to the UK. How does that feel?John Caird: It’s wonderful.We’ve got a fantastic cast, two brilliant young performers, and we’ve only just begun rehearsals, but I’m already having a wonderful time. It’s been an incredibly enjoyable process so far.
9. The Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, EnglandThe Brontë Sisters sculpture in the grounds at Haworth, depicting Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, three women who produced some of the most enduring novels in the English language.Perched atop the steep main street in the Yorkshire village of Haworth, the Brontë Parsonage Museum is the former home of one of the most extraordinary literary families in history. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë grew up in this modest Georgian house from 1820 onward, and it was here, looking out over the wild moorland that would influence their fiction, that they wrote Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.As you might expect, the museum holds the world’s largest collection of Brontë artifacts, including original manuscripts, personal letters, and childhood writing.Insider tip: A walk across the moors to Top Withens, the ruined farmhouse thought to have inspired Wuthering Heights, is about four miles round trip and well worth the effort on a clear day. (Laura Pattara)
En busca de Jane: Proyección de Cine: Jane Eyre 2011August 13, 7:30pmTeatro Británico¿Quieres recordar la historia de Jane Eyre o descubrirla por primera vez? Te invitamos a la proyección de la adaptación cinematográfica más reciente de esta famosa novela. Una nueva oportunidad para sumergirte en esta inolvidable historia de amor, independencia y búsqueda de identidad, y acercarte al universo que inspira nuestra creación escénica.En busca de Jane: Clase práctica de danza escénicaAugust 15, 2:30pmBritánico CulturalEn esta clase, el entrenamiento toma como punto de partida la gestualidad y la arquitectura emocional de los personajes que darán vida a Jane Eyre. Una creación que se sumerge en la tensión entre lo íntimo y lo salvaje, buscando una riqueza simbólica del movimiento llevada hacia los límites de un lenguaje contemporáneo arriesgado, visceral y profundamente humano.En busca de Jane: Book ClubAugust 15, 5:00pmStudio del Cultural StationComparte con nosotros un afternoon con The Tea Room by The Gay Baker y redescubre Jane Eyre, la célebre novela de Charlotte Brontë cuya vigencia continúa cautivando a nuevas generaciones de lectores.Acompañados por Valeria Rossi, exploraremos los temas y las preguntas que han convertido esta historia en un clásico: la búsqueda de la propia identidad, la independencia y una historia de amor tan apasionada como incómoda, que sigue invitándonos a cuestionar qué esperamos del amor, cuánto estamos dispuestos a ceder por él y qué significa elegir sin traicionarnos a nosotros mismos. Una lectura contemporánea que dialoga con las inquietudes de hoy, sin dejar de sumergirnos en la intensidad y el encanto de la obra original.En busca de Jane: Ensayo abiertoAugust 15 7:30pmTeatro Británico¿Cómo se construye una obra de danza a partir de una historia como Jane Eyre?Si alguna vez has sentido que la danza es difícil de entender, te has preguntado cuál es la diferencia entre el ballet y la danza contemporánea, o simplemente quieres conectar más profundamente con lo que sucede en escena, esta es una oportunidad para hacer preguntas, mirar de cerca y descubrir, junto a quienes la crean, nuevas maneras de leer y disfrutar un espectáculo de danza.En esta actividad podrás entrar al espacio de creación de Jane Eyre y presenciar desde adentro cómo se construye una obra de danza. A través de conversaciones con Pepe Hevia y el elenco, ejercicios y fragmentos en desarrollo, descubrirás cómo una novela se transforma en movimiento y cómo la danza puede narrar una historia y dar vida a personajes complejos sin necesidad de palabras.
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Thu 13 Aug 2 pm (In-person) Brontë Space at the Old School RoomThu 13 Aug 7:30pm (Online)A hundred and eighty years ago the first publication by the “Bells” appeared: an obscure volume of poems which sold only two copies. Eighteen months later Jane Eyre would become a bestseller. This talk will explore the history of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell and pay tribute to the Brontë sisters as poets.This Thursday Talk will be given by author, teacher and Museum volunteer Tamar Yellin.
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal that the BBC has joined Working Title’s new TV adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel Jane Eyre, which will be led by The White Lotus and Sex Education star Aimee Lou Wood.As we revealed earlier this year, Emmy nominee Wood is attached to play the indomitable heroine in the buzzy adaptation, which is being produced by UK powerhouse Working Title and is penned by Miriam Battye, a WGA Award winner for her work on Succession.We understand the BBC is now attached to develop the project and become its broadcaster-financier. (Andreas Wiseman)
8 'Jane Eyre' (1847)You might see Jane Eyre referred to as a bildungsroman, which is really just a fancier-sounding name for a “coming-of-age story.” The titular character is introduced as a young girl who lives a challenging childhood, though it’s far from exclusively about her younger years, considering the length of time the whole psychologically tense and dense novel ends up spanning.But since those early years are so significant to what happens later, it makes that coming-of-age component of the novel very necessary. Also, plenty of good stories about not only growing up, but emotionally maturing, center on characters who are young adults, just because it's a reality of life is that people don’t always mentally/emotionally mature right when adulthood hits. If only it could be like the flip of a switch, but if it were, then the world probably wouldn’t have nearly as many coming-of-age stories. (Jeremy Urquhart)
Shanghai North Bund AIA Grand Theatre (上海北外滩友邦大剧院) 889 Dongdaming Road, Hongkou District, ShanghaiAugust 13-16, 2026, 19:30 (evenings) August 15-16, 2026, 14:00 (matinees)Directed by Jin Shengquan and Tian YifanBook and lyrics by Lu Yueying, with Jin Shengquan and Tian YifanComposed and orchestrated by Qi FengPresented by Jian Culture, Beijing Guoyun Art Exchange, Beijing Poly Theatre Management, and Baoyi Culture
Andrew McMillan: If you’re having a fragile day while midway through a tour, how do you take care of yourself?Kate Ceberano: It’s very infantilising, but you’ve got to feed yourself and put yourself to a little afternoon nap. You’re just going to think me completely ridiculous; I don’t know why, but I find listening to old English novels, like Emily Brontë in an audiobook, and it’s just the weirdest thing. I find it so soothing to go to a drawing room in 1870 or 1880, and know that there’s nothing out the window (in the story) except for a few lowing cows, and one spare lamb, you know? (laughs) And she’s just sitting out of that window, wondering what Darcy’s doing that afternoon. I find that has a sort of a therapeutic kind of “om” (effect) for me.So when I’m driving from one venue to the next, sometimes it’s up to 4½ hours’ drive, and I know I’ve got to recover, put it back up on soundcheck, and then the gig in the evening … God help me if I don’t go and escape to Jane Eyre, or Wuthering Heights, or Pride and Prejudice. It’s definitely comforting to me to cuddle into that space. I’m like a kid: put the kid on the couch, put on something quiet on the television, take everything away and make sure the stomach’s fed, give her a little “nanna nap” – and then she’s good to go.
The show opens with the Narrator (Kady Lyon) trying to settle on which scary story to tell the audience (“we couldn’t get Jacob Elordi so Frankenstein is out… we couldn’t get Jacob Elordi so Wuthering Heights is out”), before settling on Gagula. (Rebecca Mahar)
Tras muchos años de abandono, la ruinosa mansión de Wildfell Hall es habitada de nuevo por una misteriosa mujer y su hijo de corta edad. La nueva inquilina, una viuda, no tarda, con su carácter retraído y poco sociable, sus opiniones a menudo radicales y su extraña, triste belleza, en atraer las sospechas de la vecindad, y a la vez la rendida admiración de un joven e impetuoso agricultor. Pero la mujer tiene, en efecto, un pasado... más terrible y tortuoso si cabe de lo que la peor de las murmuraciones es capaz de adivinar. La inquilina de Wildfell Hall (1848), segunda y última novela de Anne Brontë, une al bello relato de un amor prohibido e invernal el retrato intensísimo del fracaso de un matrimonio degradado por el abuso y la violencia. (Translation)
Desde su aparición en 2020, la novela ha sido calificada como una adaptación de los elementos del gótico romántico al contexto mexicano. Sin embargo, Silvia Moreno-García, en una entrevista para el podcast “Books Connect Us”, de Penguin Random House, revela que esto no es del todo cierto.“En realidad no estaba pensando en el gótico romántico como el de ‘Cumbres borrascosas’ o ‘Jane Eyre’, sino más bien en el gótico de terror. Es decir, títulos como ‘Drácula’, ‘El monje’ o los relatos de Horacio Quiroga”, dice la autora que relata que la historia surgió de un viaje a Real de Monte en Hidalgo, donde hay minas que fueron explotadas primero por españoles y luego por ingleses. (Kevin Aragón) (Translation)
The Brontë Sisters UK publishes a video about this 1850 painting by Abraham Solomon, Portrait of Charlotte Brontë. An intriguing portrait, hardly of the real Charlotte but curious, anyway. The latest post by AnneBrontë.org marks two Brontë-adjacent clergy anniversaries: Sutcliffe Sowden, who married Arthur and Charlotte and later died tragically in a canal, and Hammond Roberson, the fiercely anti-Luddite Dewsbury vicar known to Patrick Brontë and immortalized as Charlotte's Reverend Helstone in Shirley.
Naomi Alderman returns with her series that explores the minds of the greatest thinkers in history. From political theorists to scientists to inventors, authors and artists. Our world is based on their ideas and innovations. How did they do their work, what did they struggle with, where did they find their dedication, creativity and inspiration?Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights sent shockwaves through Victorian society when it was published, and it is a novel that continues to stir debate and discussion today. What can we learn of the mind that conjured up such a piece of work? And how did her reclusive nature bring greater depth and focus to her writing?Special thanks to Dr Claire O’Callaghan, Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Loughborough University.Produced by BBC Studios in partnership with The Open University.
Naomi Alderman returns with a new series of the programme that examines the minds of great thinkers and discovers where their creativity came from and how they applied it to work that influences us today. She begins with Emily Brontë, whose Wuthering Heights has spawned many remakes, and asks if her reclusive nature contributed to the intensity of her writing. The Behind the Glass: A Parsonage podcast from the Brontë Museum in Haworth takes an in-depth look at items in its collection, plus social issues that would have affected the family. (Clair Woodward)
The Brontë Parsonage is a must-visit and will help you learn more about the sisters’ lives through immersive exhibitions.If you are up for a walk, the Brontë waterfall and bridge that was often visited by the sisters is a 45-minute walk away.To explore more of the surrounding area, you can get a Day Rover ticket for the heritage steam train that runs along the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.For food, you might want to stop at Cobbles and Clay for either some breakfast or a hearty sandwich for lunch.The café also serves a range of hot and cold drinks alongside plenty of homemade cakes to choose from.If you are looking for somewhere to treat yourself, you could try the Hawthorn restaurant that offers seasonal dishes created using local ingredients. (Amy Britton)
Different eras posed different challenges. For instance, trying to represent the whole of 20th-century literature by means of 10 books felt like trying, in Emily Brontë’s words, to plant an oak tree in a flower pot (...) [The quote is from Chapter XIV and goes like this:He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!]Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The first reviewers were horrified – “How a human being could have attempted such a book… without committing suicide before he had finished a dozen chapters, is a mystery,” declared one American critic – and poor Emily Brontë died at 30 within a year of publication, not knowing her only novel would come to be seen as the masterwork of Victorian fiction.What raises Wuthering Heights above other love stories, including Emily’s sister Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, is the way it conveys passion as a physical force, as irresistible as gravity and potentially as dangerous. Adaptations never do the book justice, because capturing the elemental essence of “imp of Satan” Heathcliff and his lover/possible half-sister Cathy is trickier than taming tigers. (Jake Kerridge)
[FR] Leavis was correct that Gwendolen is one of the great heroines of Victorian literature, more tragic and impulsive than Elizabeth Bennet, more dashing and winsome than Jane Eyre. And he was also right that the book’s Jewish chapters can be mawkish in places. But what he missed was how insightful they are. (Josh Glancy)
The play takes a few liberties with the historical Brontë sisters — Emily, Charlotte and Anne — who were never simultaneously at the Roe Head School for Girls. But that matters little for the purposes of the charming ghost story that Zolidis has created. Emily (Taylor Curtis) seeks to understand why her mother died young and spins a series of tales aimed at relieving her sense of loss. (For Brontë enthusiasts, there will be the added poignancy of knowing that Emily herself would live only to age 30.)At the final dress rehearsal seen by The News-Gazette, director Emily Ritter’s production appeared to need more rehearsal time given the challenges faced in performance. Although the playwright estimates a 90-minute performance, the Twin City production adds 45 minutes to that. In comedy, less can often be more, and the trick is to know when to simplify. (Jeffrey Eric Jenkins)
Maybe my surroundings influenced me a little? After all, there are the Brontë ladies, and The Railway Children – that part of Yorkshire is steeped in literature, and there’s a lot of creativity around. (Phil Penfold)
2. Kate Bush - Wuthering HeightsOne of the most famous literary-influenced pop songs, young Kate’s adaptation of Emily Bronte’s dark romance from 1847 made the UK Number One spot in 1978. Kate chose the song because she realised that she shared a birthday with the writer: 30 July.
Saltmoore’s greatest strength, though, is how deeply rooted it feels in Yorkshire. Rather than shutting the landscape out, it welcomes it in full force. The dramatic coastline is only moments away, while the moors, wild, untamed and romantic, provide a backdrop that changes. It’s no surprise these are the landscapes that not only inspired Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights but also welcomed a new generation of visitors when Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi brought the story back to the big screen earlier this year. If you want to explore further and find out more, you can drive around to see the filming locations, but you might need some welly boots for rambles across the heathers. (Soraya Gaied Chortane)
13. "I loved listening to Thandiwe Newton reading Jane Eyre even more than I loved reading it myself, and it was already one of my favorite books."
Weeks after the 2025 release of the remastered version of Buckingham Nicks, Nicks appeared on the music podcast Song Exploder to discuss the concept of the album’s hit track “Frozen Love.”The song is about “two people that were in love, that had a lot of differences and saw the world slightly differently, but had this relationship that seemed to be like a gift,” Nicks said.“I like to think of it as Wuthering Heights or Great Expectations — a modern day love affair, tragedies,” she added. “Because nobody really loves happy songs. Certainly I didn’t, and neither really did Lindsey. (Inga Parkel)
BBC Four reairs tonight (21:40 h GMT) The Brontës Live Here: Writer's Houses with Margaret Drabble visiting the Parsonage in 1973. The influencer and writer Carolina Müller recommends Wuthering Heights in Alternativo (México). The Sunday Guardian (India) lists ficional character with powerful life lessons, including Jane Eyre.
The Collision Canon - A Literary Mashup Thrillers"Julian Harborough"ISBN: 9798182146203July 2026Jane Eyre meets Frankenstein.Jane has never asked Thornfield Hall to make sense. The sounds from the locked floor at night, the housekeeper's careful non-answers, the master's grief that sits behind his charm like a second person in the room. Jane has survived worse than a house with secrets. What she has never faced before is loving a man who has done something she cannot forgive... but cannot stop trying to.Edward Rochester did not lock a madwoman in his attic. He locked away the thing he built there. A living being, assembled in grief and brilliance, and a desperate refusal to accept his young son's death, four years and one terrible secret ago. It became something he never intended to create: articulate, self-aware, lonelier than anything Jane has ever met, and entirely uncertain what it owes the man who made it, or what he owes it in return.When Jane finally climbs the stairs she has been told never to climb, she does not find a monster. She finds a question neither Brontë nor Shelley had to answer alone: what does a person made rather than born have the right to demand? And what does loving the man who made him cost the woman who loves him?The Creature in the Attic keeps Jane's unflinching, self-examining voice exactly as it should be, and asks it to confront what neither novel could explore on its own. This is gothic romance with its conscience fully switched on, where the horror is not a monster in the dark but the weight of what one brilliant, frightened man was willing to do for love.Book Two of the Collision Canon. A series in which the greatest novels ever written begin, one book at a time, to bleed into each other.
One of the world’s most high-profile environmental campaigners has warned against Saudi-backed plans to build one of the country’s biggest windfarms on the wild moorland that was the inspiration for Wuthering Heights.Walshaw Moor, near Halifax in West Yorkshire, is designated as a Special Area of Conservation and a Special Protection Area due to its rare peatland habitat and red-listed bird species, including curlews, lapwings, skylarks, merlins, and golden plovers.The ruined farmhouse on top of the moor is said to have inspired the novel by Emily Brontë, which shot to prominence again earlier this year with Emerald Fennell’s movie adaptation starring Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie.Despite its legal protections, the developers are pushing ahead with plans to build 34 wind turbines – at 200m more than 40m higher than the Blackpool Tower – and a battery energy storage system, known as Calderdale Energy Park.MPs from Labour and the Conservatives have objected to the project, highlighting the fact that the scheme would cover more than 2,300 hectares of protected peatland, one of the UK’s most important natural carbon stores.Now Sadhguru, a spiritual yogi who is the leader of the Save Soil movement and one of the most famous campaigners in India, told The Yorkshire Post that certain soil types like peatland “must be prioritised” over developments.He said: “Preserving agricultural land and soil health is a generational responsibility.“We are just pop ups on this planet, and our actions have an impact on generations to come.“Whether it is peatlands or any kind of soil, construction can definitely cause its damage.“It’s not that all development is negative, and renewable energy sources are needed - but certain soil types are unique in their ability to regulate our climate, are essential for the surrounding biodiversity, and their future prosperity must be prioritised.” (Ralph Blackburn)
But these are not isolated cases: recently, the same technique has been used in other movies with historical backdrops such as Macbeth (Justin Kurzel, 2015), Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd, 2016), The King (David Michôd, 2019), The Wonder (Sebastián Lelio, 2022), The Northman (Robert Eggers, 2022), Firebrand (Karim Aïnouz, 2023) and Wuthering Heights (Emerald Fennel, 2026). And last year Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet entered the Oscars race with that same visual register used also in French blockbusters such as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan, and Spanish movies from Alatriste to El Cautivo.In all these cases, the absence of color tells us we are watching an important film, suitable both for an award and box office success, as discussed by the artist and scholar David Batchelor in his book Chromophobia (Ed. Síntesis), originally published in 2000. According to Batchelor, this expulsion of color usually takes place in one of two ways. In the first, the color is attributed to some “foreign” body: the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological — or by relegating it to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessential, or the cosmetic. In the first case, the color is considered something strange and, therefore, dangerous; in the second, it is perceived simply as a secondary quality of experience and, therefore, unworthy of serious consideration. (Ianko López)
The booksellers say the surge in interest followed a similar pattern after other film adaptations earlier this year for The Wuthering Heights and Project Hail Mary. (Isra'a Emhail)
Entertainment can often be a way for us to switch off. This year what’s on our screens has frequently been aimed at turning us on. From the sensual pleasures of “Wuthering Heights” to the steamy shower scenes in “Heated Rivalry”, sex has been front and center in a slew of recent hits in ways that might previously have made them ineligible to be mainstream cultural powerhouses. It’s safe to say horniness is having a moment. (David Mack)
Charlotte Brontë, the author of “Jane Eyre,” who died, at thirty-eight, a few months into pregnancy, in 1855, experienced “sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness,” according to her biographer and friend Elizabeth Gaskell. Though her death certificate lists the cause of death as phthisis, or tuberculosis, contemporary scholars believe she died of complications from H.G. (Anna Russell)
Wed 9 Sept, 7:00pmOnline via ZoomRuth from Fact to Fiction tells the story of Elizabeth Gaskell’s involvement with a young prostitute in Manchester’s New Bailey prison and the novel she wrote based on this encounter. Discover why Ruth was considered so controversial that it was burned on the steps of the Cross St Chapel in Manchester...Livi Michael has written award-winning novels for adults, young adults and children. Her short stories have been published in various places including Granta and Fictive Dream, and in The Best British Short Stories (Salt, 2026). Her play, Singers Not Sinners, is about the first three women who were allowed to sing in a choir, and was performed in Oldham in 2022. Livi has taught creative writing in various universities and was Programme Leader of the MA in Publishing at Manchester Metropolitan University. She runs a podcast about short stories with the writer and translator Sonya Moor. Elizabeth and Ruth is her 21st book.
In Twin City Theatre Company’s Stars of Tomorrow production, a rambunctious cast and crew of young theatre-makers barrels full-speed through an exuberantly irreverent reimagining of Emily Brontë’s time at the Roe Head Girls’ School, with a dash of Scooby Doo sprinkled on top for good measure. The play envisions the Brontë sisters’ deceased mother as a skilled necromancer. While Charlotte and Anne are reticent to continue their mother’s legacy, Emily eagerly follows in her mother’s footsteps when a phantom begins terrorizing Roe Head, where Emily and Anne are students and Charlotte is a teacher. Together, they must solve the mystery of the phantom, navigate the onerous expectations placed on young women in the 1800s (or any era, for that matter), and save the school from shutting down once and for all.Emily Ritter makes her directorial debut after performing in the last four Twin City student productions, and most recently Songs for a New World. Ritter marshals a sizeable cast, which ranges in age from elementary school children to recent college graduates. As Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Taylor Curtis and Winnie Blanchfield drive much of the action. Charlotte’s role as a teacher brings her priorities into conflict, forcing her to choose between her job responsibilities and her desire to support the obstinate and irrepressible Emily. That conflict serves as the play’s emotional backbone, as the characters explore the timeless themes of intergenerational misunderstanding. Curtis’s performance as Emily is appropriately single-minded and acerbic. Blanchfield captures the plight of a character stuck between two worlds; Charlotte is no longer one of the girls, but she is also not resigned to settling for an adulthood consumed by a loveless marriage, career advancement, or both. (Douglas Malcolm)
Megan McGinnis: I’m Megan McGinnis, and I’m co-directing this production of Jane Eyre.I actually started my journey with Jane Eyre in 1998. I auditioned to be in the show and wasn’t cast, but I completely fell in love with the musical after seeing it on Broadway many times.Then, in 2009, I began working with John Caird and Paul Gordon on Daddy Long Legs. That production really cemented our creative relationship, and when I directed a new American production of Jane Eyre a couple of years ago, they came into rehearsals and continued developing the piece. I suddenly realised I wasn’t directing a finished musical anymore—I was directing something that was still evolving.When this UK premiere came along, John and Paul invited me to join them as co-director, and I couldn’t be happier that I said yes.Jane Eyre is one of the great literary masterpieces. What was it about Charlotte Brontë’s story that first spoke to you?Megan McGinnis: I first read the novel while I was at college, and it came at exactly the right time in my life.Reading about a woman who was honest about her flaws but still believed she deserved happiness, love and equality was incredibly powerful. Jane never lets society define her worth, even though obstacles are constantly put in her way.Sadly, it’s also a reminder that many of the issues women faced in the 1840s are still relevant today, which is one of the reasons the story continues to resonate with audiences.One of the production’s most interesting creative decisions is that the ensemble all become Jane’s voice at different points throughout the story. How does that work in practice?Megan McGinnis: That’s really the beauty of this adaptation.Everyone on stage becomes part of Jane’s journey, and because the novel is written from her perspective, the ensemble helps carry that narration in a really theatrical way.It also means every member of the company has ownership of the storytelling, and that’s something that has made rehearsals incredibly exciting.
Historic books, which have been chosen for display by Rosemary Wood, Becca Smith, Alice Measom McMahon, and Polly Anna Rosa Steiner, address environmental connections and the use of plants in healing by witches and healers, as well as local representation of witches in the Northwest of England and colonial stereotyping. Books on display include J. G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough, William Harrison Ainsworth’s The Lancashire Witches, and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea. (Bradley Lengden)
But while this story is a newish angle on the slavery story (perhaps taking some cues from Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, or Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea), it isn’t always successful at executing what it sets out to achieve. (Aoife Barry)
But from the moment Claudia arrives and approaches the creepy-looking plantation house on the hill, she is plunged into a Gothic horror. Think hauntings, centuries-old curses and possession by evil entities, all rooted in the West African tradition of obeah. There are echoes here of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, plus every horror film that has tried to spook us with unidentifiable noises, doors that suddenly won’t open and disturbing things hidden beneath the floorboards. (Anita Singh)
Indiana was a smash hit and an enduring one, and it’s fair to suggest, as Sampson does, that this “creole romance” had a direct influence on both Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Sand quickly became known in Paris for a literary facility every bit the match for her subversive social persona and lifestyle. (Gregory Day)
«Sea lo que sea de lo que estén hechas nuestras almas, la tuya y la mía son las mismas». Emily Brontë definió a la perfección uno de los amores más tóxicos de la historia de la literatura, que daría pie a las novelas románticas juveniles de nuestros días; aunque parece que hubo un tiempo en que habían desaparecido, simplemente cambiaron de generación. (Diego Rueda) (Translation)
Con el objetivo de fortalecer el hábito de la lectura y generar espacios de convivencia entre la ciudadanía, el Gobierno Municipal de Villa de Pozos, a través de la Biblioteca Municipal "Dr. Francisco de Asís Castro", retomará este martes 4 de agosto las sesiones del Café Literario, un espacio dedicado al análisis de obras literarias y al intercambio de ideas entre las y los participantes.La directora de Bibliotecas, Sofía Narváez, informó que las reuniones se llevan a cabo todos los martes del mes a las 10:00 de la mañana en las instalaciones de la biblioteca. En esta nueva etapa, el libro seleccionado será Cumbres Borrascosas, de la escritora inglesa Emily Brontë, obra que servirá como punto de partida para las actividades de lectura, análisis y diálogo entre los asistentes. (Plano Informativo) (Translation)
Startefacts lists five Wuthering Heights adaptations: Wuthering Heights 1978, Wuthering Heights 2009, Arashi ga oka 1988, Abismos de Pasión 1954 and Hihintayin kita sa langit 1991.
In Emerald Fennell’s 2026 take on Wuthering Heights, costume designer Jacqueline Durran created a theatrical hoop-skirted gown with a sweeping train for Cathy’s ill-fated marriage to Edgar Linton. (Meg Walters)
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by Adriana BartůňkováUniverzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně V Ústí Nad Labem. Pedagogická FakultaMay 2026Although the novel Wuthering Heights was considered controversial in its time, today it is one of the most important works of British Victorian literature. The main aim of this thesis is to analyze and highlight how the author, Emily Brontë, through aspects of this work, depicts and at the same time criticizes moral norms of the Victorian era in which the novel was published, especially through social relationships and hierarchies. This bachelor's thesis also examines how difficult it was to live with these moral norms in the author's time, especially as a woman.
Zhu Mingzhu, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300380, ChinaJournal of Sociology and Education, Vol. 2 No. 3 (2026)Catherine Earnshaw's suffering in Wuthering Heights is often described as a conflict between two men: Heathcliff, the companion of her childhood, and Edgar Linton, the husband who offers rank and security. This paper reads that conflict less as a romantic choice than as a struggle over forms of life. The moors preserve Catherine's unruly kinship with Heathcliff and her memory of an undivided self; Thrushcross Grange promises comfort, status, and social intelligibility within a patriarchal order. Because the novel places these claims within a world governed by inheritance, class prejudice, and gender discipline, Catherine's marriage to Edgar becomes a compromised attempt to secure a life that she cannot fully inhabit. By examining the novel's spatial symbolism, the social conditions of Catherine's choice, and her own language of selfhood, the paper argues that her tragedy arises from an imposed division between inward identity and social survival. The discussion also considers why Catherine's dilemma continues to speak to contemporary readers, especially where external expectations still press individuals to turn against their own sense of life.
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